Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Political Cartoons Tell the Tale

Every day I receive, by paid subscription, 20 or so political cartoons (as well as daily 'funny cartoons, but that's another essay). I use the 'toons to keep up with the pulse of the bloviation. Like on TV, the inveterate right-wingers outnumber the left-wingers 5 to 1. The worst of the right wingers are Chuck Asay, Glenn McCoy, Lisa Benson. The worst of the left is Ted Rall (the Michael Moore of 'toons). The positive about the toonists is that while most of them are as stupid as the TV anchors (e.g. Russert, Matthews) there are a few balanced acts. Two of them are the estimable Tom Toles (who's been on such a role he deserves another Pulitzer) and the skeevy Pat Oliphant.

See below for today's pickin's from both. And note, Oliphant has been a critic of the Clintons back from the 90s, but his slapdown of Hillary is a telling marker that she's losing credibility capital:

Toles:

Oliphant:

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